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To: Clive
Zimbabwe's grim future casts doubt on Africa and investors flee **** Having conducted a terror campaign against his political opponents, beggared his country's economy, corrupted its courts, intimidated its press, alienated its entrepreneurs, widened its racial divide, presided over the armed robbery of thousands of farms and then rigged an election to assure his victory, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe paid a small price last week: Zimbabwe was suspended for a year from the Commonwealth - a group of 54 nations, most of them former British colonies.

But it is not the British Commonwealth, or any other international organization led by Westerners, that is apt to deter Mugabe from his increasingly autocratic and destructive course and bring democracy and prosperity to Zimbabwe. What must sway Mugabe, if he is to be moved at all, is collective action by responsible African leaders.****

7 posted on 03/29/2002 12:48:22 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
And they aren't doing a damned thing to stop him !

They'll blame racism for the failure of NEPAD; however, it will be their own, combined stupidity and black racism , that does them and the entire SubSaharan Africa in.

9 posted on 03/29/2002 1:02:22 AM PST by nopardons
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